Alien: Covenant Origins: The Official Prequel to the Blockbuster Film

The Covenant mission is the most ambitious endeavor in the history of Weyland-Yutani. A ship bound for Origae-6, carrying 2,000 colonists beyond the limits of known space, this is a make-or-break investment for the corporation - and for the future of all mankind. Yet there are those who would die to stop the mission. As the colony ship hovers in Earth orbit, several violent events reveal a deadly conspiracy to sabotage the launch.

Predator: Incursion: The Rage War, Book 1

Predator ships stream into human space in unprecedented numbers. The Colonial Marines, controlled by Weyland-Yutani, respond to the incursion, thus entering the Rage War. This terrifying assault by the Yautja cannot go unchallenged, yet the cost of combat is high. Predators are master combatants, and each encounter yields a high body count. Then, when Lt. Johnny Mains and his marines - the VoidLarks - enter the fray, they discover an enemy deadlier than any could imagine.

Alien: Out of the Shadows: Book 1

As a child Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolation. Then, on planet LV178, he and his fellow miners discovered a storm-scoured, sand-blasted hell - and trimonite, the hardest material known to man. When a shuttle crashes into the mining ship Marion, the miners learn that there was more than trimonite deep in the caverns. There was evil, hibernating - and waiting for suitable prey.

The Black: A Deep Sea Thriller

Under 30,000 feet of water, the exploration rig Leaguer has discovered an oil field larger than Saudi Arabia. The oil is so sweet and pure, nations would go to war for the rights to it. As the team starts drilling one exploration well after another in their race to claim the sweet crude, a deep rumbling beneath the ocean floor shakes them all to their core. Something has been living in the oil and it's about to give birth to the greatest threat humanity has ever seen.

Jaws

Jaws is the classic, blockbuster thriller that inspired the three-time Academy Award-winning Steven Spielberg movie and made millions of beachgoers afraid to go into the water. Experience the thrill of helpless horror again - or for the first time! Jaws was #48 in the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Movies, and the film earned the coveted #1 spot on the Bravo network's 100 Scariest Movie Moments countdown.

Based upon the graphic novels by Joe Harris - with creative direction from series creator Chris Carter - and adapted specifically for the audio format by aural auteur Dirk Maggs (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Alien: Out of the Shadows), Cold Cases marks yet another thrilling addition to the pantheon of X-Files stories. Featuring a mind-blowing and otherworldly soundscape of liquefying aliens, hissing creatures, and humming spacecraft, listeners get to experience the duo's investigations like never before.

Earthcore

EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources, and the guts to go after the mother lode. Young executive Connell Kirkland is the company's driving force, pushing himself and those around him to uncover the massive treasure. But at three miles below the surface, where the rocks are so hot they burn bare skin, something has been waiting for centuries. Waiting...and guarding. Kirkland and EarthCore are about to find out first-hand why this treasure has never been unearthed.

Trust No One: X-Files, Book 1

We all want to believe. The truth is still out there. The X-Files have been reopened. IDW Publishing and series creator Chris Carter have authorized new investigations into the weird, the strange, and the mysterious. New York Times best-selling author and multiple Bram Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry brings together some of today's top storytellers for a series of anthologies featuring all-new stories from the X-Files. Scully and Mulder continue their journey into darkness as they face aliens, monsters, shadow governments, and twisted conspiracies.

Breeds, Book 1

In a near-deserted coastal village, odd things are happening. Strangers are asking questions about the town's recluse. A local hunter discovers naked footprints in the snow. The stray dog population has ceased to exist. And with winter's most powerful weapon bearing down, things are about to become much, much worse. A werewolf book. Not a romance. Not at all.

Independence Day: Resurgence: The Official Movie Novelization

Hybrid fighters merging human and alien technology. Massive cannon emplacements on the moon and Mars. A planetary defense force with the finest military personnel ever trained. For two decades we've known the enemy would return. The nations of Earth have collaborated on a unified defense program designed to defend the planet.

The Hatching

Deep in the jungle of Peru, a black, skittering mass devours an American tourist party whole. FBI agent Mike Rich investigates a fatal plane crash in Minneapolis and makes a gruesome discovery. Unusual seismic patterns register in an Indian earthquake lab, confounding the scientists there. The Chinese government 'accidentally' drops a nuclear bomb in an isolated region of its own country. And all of these events are connected.

Hell Divers: The Hell Divers Trilogy, Book 1

More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to Earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers - men and women who risk their lives by diving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need.

Goblins: The X-Files, Book 1

Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI - the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job is to investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. These are the cases the Bureau wants handled quietly but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there...and panics - the cases filed under "X".

Gadget Enthusiast! says:"Thought the characters were a little inconsistent."

Star Wars

This landmark production, perhaps the most ambitious radio project ever attempted, began when Star Wars creator George Lucas donated the story rights to an NPR affiliate. Writer Brian Daley adapted the film's highly visual script to the special demands and unique possibilities of radio, creating a more richly textured tale with greater emphasis on character development.

Jurassic Park: A Novel

Audie Award, Science Fiction, 2016. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind's most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them - for a price.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Dramatized)

Like its predecessor, this electrifying drama boasts an outstanding cast (including Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Anthony Daniels as See Threepio, Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian, and John Lithgow as Yoda); a greatly expanded script, with many scenes not found in the movie; and audio engineering of unparalleled excellence. The Empire Strikes Back takes you once more into a galaxy of pure sound and limitless imagination for an adventure you'll never forget.

John Wyndham: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Six classic BBC radio adaptations

Bill Nighy, Barbara Shelley and Peter Sallis are among the cast in six classic BBC Radio dramatisations of stories by one of Britain's most popular science fiction authors. 'The Day of the Triffids', first broadcast in 1968, is set in a world in which most people have been left blind after a meteor shower, and lethal carnivorous triffids are roaming the land. 'The Kraken Wakes', dramatised for radio in 1998, is a gripping story of monsters from the deep, alien invasion and ecological disaster.

Fathomless

In Fathomless, the greatest predator the world has ever known is coming home in 2016. Carcharodon megalodon. The largest and most fearsome predator to have ever existed on our planet. Rumours of its existence in our modern oceans have persisted for centuries. Now, in a new adventure, the rumours explode into brutal and terrifying reality in Fathomless, by Greig Beck.

Columbus Day: Expeditionary Force, Book 1

The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the Native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon came ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There went the good old days, when humans got killed only by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.

The Running Man

Every night they tuned in to the nation's favourite prime-time TV game show. They all watched, from the sprawling slums to the security-obsessed enclaves of the rich. They all watched the ultimate live death game as the contestants tried to beat not the clock but annihilation at the hands of the Hunters. Survive 30 days, and win the billion dollar jackpot - that was the promise. But the odds were brutal and the game rigged.

It

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their hometown: familiar, well ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing....

The Tide

Captain Dominic Holland leads a crew of skilled covert operatives and talented scientific personnel. He's taken them to all corners of the Earth to protect the United States from biological and chemical warfare. When his CIA handler, Meredith Webb, gives him a mission to investigate a disturbing lead on a laboratory based out of an abandoned oil rig, they discover the most terrifying threat to mankind they've ever faced - a genetically engineered biological weapon called the Oni Agent.

Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker star as the Doctor in these seven narrated full-cast TV soundtracks of classic Doctor Who TV serials. The stories are 'The Tomb of the Cybermen' (narrated by Frazer Hines); 'Doctor Who and the Silurians' (narrated by Caroline John); 'The Sea Devils' (narrated by Katy Manning); 'The Curse of Peladon' (narrated by Katy Manning); 'The Monster of Peladon' (narrated by Elisabeth Sladen); 'The Pirate Planet' (narrated by John Leeson); and 'Destiny of the Daleks' (narrated by Lalla Ward).

Return of the Jedi

Like its predecessors, this electrifying drama boasts a splendid cast (including Anthony Daniels as See-Threepio and Ed Asner as Jabba the Hutt), a greatly expanded script, with many scenes and characters not found in the movie, and audio engineering of unparalleled excellence.

Publisher's Summary

Ellen Ripley awakens onboard the space station Auriga. Her last memory is of her own fiery death. And yet she is somehow alive.

Ripley discovers that her 'resurrection' is a result of an incredible experiment that has altered both her and the creature she has been carrying. To combat the incalculable alien menace, she teams up with a renegade band of space smugglers.

I enjoyed Alien 3 more because the novelization differed from the movie in many ways and filled in a few plot holes. Alien Resurrection does have its moments nevertheless and it is ably narrated by William Hope.

This was Brilliant !!! I am a HUGE fan of the "Alien" franchise, and of course having watched the movies, I knew the story........BUT as with the other Alien Audiobooks I've listened to recently I found it Very easy to get lost in my OWN imagination and bring to life the story in my own visualisations !!! (*It does help to have a vivid & lively imagination, which at 41 I'm still blessed (or cursed) with !!)I'm not one for spoilers, so WON'T go into any details, just give my honest opinion.....If you're a fan of the "Alien" saga then the whole Aliens Audiobook series is a MUST !!!! The narration by William Hope (*who played LT Gorman in "Aliens") is Great !! and adds some genuine connection. All said and done this is a BRILLIANT Sci-Fi story, whether read as part of the Alien series OR as a stand-alone book !!!

And it is. The book offers a little bit more of the motivations and thoughts behind a lot of the stuff on screen. However, nothing can really save the new born monstrosity, and William Hope's impression of Johner grates on occasion.

That said, the body horror is described and written in ways that genuinely made me feel a little uncomfortable, so that landed home.

I really like that I have not seen this movies in such a long time. The books made the stories come back to life for me. Not only that but also brought to focus many things that I may not have noticed while just watching the movie. Yet again, the book out does the movie, and this is a novelization!

For book four, Ripley is dealing with something completely different. They have cloned her (how they got her out of lava from book three is not really talked about, but somehow they were able to) and they also cloned her alien baby. OF COURSE THEY DID! I mean why not clone this horrific alien that eats people, bleeds and spits acid, and can survive the apocalypse like huge, carnivorous cockroaches? Makes sense to me! Well, they do and it's Ripley that is left with the implications of having to choose between races.

I loved being able to hear the alien's thoughts. The narration and audio did a fantastic job of bringing this hive like creature to life. I talk about cockroaches but in reality, it's like they are bees. Carnivorous bees that want to do a lot more than just pollinate flowers! It was amazing getting a feel for who they were and how they thought. I did not know until the very end which way Ripley would choose. The narration just made it all the more intriguing to listen to.

I would definitely recommend listening to this. The narration by William Hope is incredible. And, although I would have loved to hear it with a full cast, the story and the narrator really leads this into a great direction. Fans will love this even more than the already fantastic movies. The voices were easily discernible, even when they are in terror, or like when another android goes on the fritz. I loved listening to that portion, although it did freak me out a little!

In short: Fan freaking tastic story. Even better than the movies.

Audiobook was purchased for review by ABR.

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Doug D. Eigsti

Kansas City, MO United States

19/05/16

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"Ripley is More Alien Than The Xenomorphs"

This is the most unique installment of the series. I always thought that the most alien thing in the movie was Sigourney Weaver’s resurrected Ripley character. This A.C. Crispin novelization is faithful to the director’s cut of the movie and gives much more detail than any of the other novelizations.

William Hope must have had fun performing this book because his performance is wonderfully engaging and dramatic.

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V's Cookn

Fairfield, CA USA

04/02/17

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"Ripley gets better and better."

Didn't think it could get better. but it did! I enjoyed this book very much.

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Christopher Hansen

Gig Harbor, WA United States

22/08/16

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"Decent, not exceptional."

Great narrator and performance. Script parallels the movie, but drones on in too much detail towards the end.

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Steven

Hillside, NJ, United States

25/07/16

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"How the French Say....It Sucks.."

So. I love the Alien series. I grew up watching these movies. (see my Alien 3 review) The unique, bizarre, grotesque and horrid look and feel of the the first and 2nd movies really stuck with me when I was younger. When I think sci fi horror, the alien theme and "look" of the movies is what really comes to mind. As much as I love other settings like Star Wars and Star Trek, their pretty, glamous, new and shiny worlds just lack the gritty, realism that the alien franchise has captures and run with.Anywho I've vouched for myself enough. So let me just state off the bat, this book is a piece of garbage. I'll compare this directly with the Alien 3 novel. Alien 3 was a horrible movie. But the novelization of it, was so well written, that you wouldn't have known it. THIS waste of paper, is not the same ilk. It, in all seriousness feels as though it was written by a teenage boy, for his teenage friends. As though they watched the movie, remembered parts that stuck out, elaborated on those scenes and everything else is swept by with such random disregard. You can really tell this is a novelization of a motion picture. And perhaps this is the fault with some movies, or scenes. They just don't lend themselves well to writing. Or let me correct that... some movies or scenes take actual skill to turn them into cohesive writing that doesn't sound like it's directly pulled from a movie scene. Skill that Mr. Crispin, does not possess. The writing (not the story necessarily) is told in a very flat, "This happens, that happens" method. No elaboration, no metaphoric use of the English language, nothing in excess. Emotion doesn't even come through very well. Plus I really detest the character that Ripley has become. Her new "all knowing" god like attitude is just cheesy and cliche. What made Ripley so amazing, in the first two movies, is that was was a normal woman. Put in extraordinarily scary and bad scenarios which she used her creativity, and instinct to overcome. The last two movies, made her into this omnipotent matyr where she no longer relied on herself for survival, but was seemingly given super powers that gets her out of her messes.

What this does is reduce the credit that she's given as a person, and just overall makes me not care about her anymore. The author doesn't nothing humanize her, and just makes her into a walking robot. Seriously, Call the actual robot ((Oh i'm sorry, "Artificial person) has more emotion that Ripley.

I wasn't a fan of this movie by any stretch. But the book offers absolutely zero redeeming factors that the novelization of Alien 3 provided. It made a crap movie, into an absolute crap book. At least with the movie, I got to see Wionna Ryder... :\

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Troy

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, United States

24/07/16

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"Probably the best of the first four novelizations."

A while back I decided to punish myself for some reason by reading through the novelizations of the first four Alien movies for reasons I won't go into here. I generally dislike novelizations -- at least I dislike them unless they add something to the experience of the movie. Too often they simply sweep you through the movie and don't even bother to stop and provide good descriptions (relying on the fact that you already have the visuals in your head). What I'm really looking for, of course, is more detail about the world and some of the internal dialogue of the characters. Alien 4: Alien Resurrection really came through on that score. Here's the good and the bad.

The good. You get some internal dialogue from the characters and from the aliens themselves! You also get a look into the world of an artificial human, two actually - an android and a semi-human clone. I especially enjoyed the sub-plot surrounding the artificial human (android). The reading by Hope is generally good and Crispin's writing is fine too. There are a couple of things going for the movie that really translated well into the novelization - the spooky atmosphere and the huge variety of interesting characters.

The bad. Well, there's not much negative worth saying. The book does indeed suffer some of the typical problems of a novelization - lazy description, for instance - but not as much as was the case with Foster's novelizations (Alien and Aliens). You also don't get a lot of extra plot detail that wasn't apparent in the movie, but you get a little.

Overall, I'd say it was a satisfying read.

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qigongdoc

30/06/16

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"Without question the best of the series"

I read all four books in a row or rather I listen to them without question this one is the best one the best writing the best story and the best of the series

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Jacob Taylor

19/06/16

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"Amazingly better than the movie!"

I was very hesitant to buy this book after the movie left a very poor impression, though was pleasantly surprised. A major component that was missing in the movie that is present here is the thoughts of Ripley and the Aliens (portrayed through her cloned genetic link to them). It makes scenes that came off as nonsensical and just weird or out of character in the movie make a lot more sense in the book and offer a unique experience for the Aliens franchise where you get to see inside the minds of the alien warriors and Queen and have a glimpse at their social structure.

The audio book itself is helped by very talented narration. The narrator varries his voice for the different characters and never once had me cringing or bored which can easily happen when the best of books gets a bad or uninterested narrator.

If you like the Aliens franchise I strongly recommend giving this book a look and redeem your opinion of Alien Resurrection. The writer and narrator managed to make the weakest Aliens movie into an amazing entry into the series.

Lastly if you enjoy this book or the series I strongly suggest checking out Aliens: Out of the Shadows, the audible drama, which basically plays out like a movie without video and is a very engaging/unique Aliens audio book experience with a fully voiced cast.

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mauricio seiti

04/05/16

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"wrong book. this is not aline resurrection... "

this is aliens, the second book. not alien resurrection...audible, please correct this book link for download

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Girlymctx

Around

02/01/16

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"Actually Better than the film. "

More details to get from the film. The movie has emotional head gestures and facial movement. Who knows what the facial gesture of being torn between two worlds could look like, other than gastrointestinal pain.

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